Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.
Alan J. Perlis
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
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
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous