Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
Ted Nelson
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
E. W. Dijkstra
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it.
John Carmack