Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
E. W. Dijkstra
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley
Rules are for the obedience of the inexperienced and the guidance of the wise.
Anonymous
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout