Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra