Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
If C didn't exist, we would be programming in OBOL, PASAL or BASI
Anonymous