Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
You can have a negative percent chance of succeeding in a task. For example, if you have a -5% chance of succeeding, not only will you fail every time you make an attempt, you will also fail 1 in 20 times that you don't even try.
Anonymous
Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.
Alan J. Perlis
People who think, "Oh this is a one-off," need to be offed, or perhaps politely removed from the project.
George Neville-Neil