Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
"It depends" is the answer to all good software engineering questions, but to be a good software engineer, you should know on what it depends, and why.
Anonymous
Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.
Alan J. Perlis
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
Debuggers don't remove bugs. They only show them in slow motion.
Anonymous
C++ has its place in the history of programming languages. Just as Caligula has his place in the history of the Roman Empire.
Robert Firth
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis