Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
The C Programming Language — A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.
Anonymous
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Wernher von Braun
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis