Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis