Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
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
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman