Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Hanlon's Razor
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
Alan J. Perlis
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan J. Perlis
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson