Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Jamie Zawinski
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
E. W. Dijkstra
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema