Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Don't code today what you can't debug tomorrow
Anonymous
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
Anonymous
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
Alan J. Perlis