Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas
If you don't think you're doing great things, you're probably right.
Anonymous
In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt.
Blair P. Houghton
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Anonymous
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein