Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
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Anonymous
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.
Alan J. Perlis
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous