Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
Alan J. Perlis
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.
Gavin Russell Baker
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.
Alan J. Perlis
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas