Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
... what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like "Structured Analysis and Design", "Software Engineering", "Maturity Models", "Management Information Systems", "Integrated Project Support Environments" "Object Orientation" and "Business Process Re-engineering" (the latter three being known as IPSE, OO and BPR, respectively).
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.
Dennie van Tassel
Sex is fun, but it probably doesn't solve all your problems.
Larry Wall
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous