Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
All programs have at least one bug remaining and can be optimized by one byte. Thus, by mathematical induction, all programs can be reduced to one byte. And it won't work.
Anonymous
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Mitch Ratcliffe
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
Once you've dressed and before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take at least one thing off.
Coco Chanel
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous