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
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
Alan J. Perlis
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Jamie Zawinski
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein