Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++.
David Jameson
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous