Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority. If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.
Jen, "The IT Crowd"
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein