Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Gordon Bell
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.
Alan J. Perlis