Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
If you don't think you're doing great things, you're probably right.
Anonymous
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford