Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If we can't fix it, then it ain't broke.
Jon Bentley
In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt.
Blair P. Houghton
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson
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
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson