Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
... 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
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous