Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Selecting a project due date before the requirements are properly gathered is like selecting which corner you want to paint yourself into, while simultaneously negating the doorway as a viable option.
Chris Ames
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
E. W. Dijkstra
Good programmers invest the effort to learn how to use current practices. Not-so-good programmers just learn the buzzwords, and that’s been a software industry constant for a half century.
Boris Beizer
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction: One, it's completely impossible. Two, it's possible, but it's not worth doing. Three, I said it was a good idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke