Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Larry Bossidy
Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
Alan J. Perlis
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
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