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
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.
Alan J. Perlis