Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development.
Anonymous
Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development.
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous