Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous