Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
Amateur programmers think there are 1000 bytes in a kilobyte; Real Programmers know there are 1024 meters in a kilometer.
Anonymous
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Alan J. Perlis
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis