Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
Steve McConnell
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic