Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous