Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction: One, it's completely impossible. Two, it's possible, but it's not worth doing. Three, I said it was a good idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous