Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
E. W. Dijkstra
Optimization hinders evolution.
Alan J. Perlis
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
When you want to do something differently from the rest of the world, it's a good idea to look into whether the rest of the world knows something you don't.
Anonymous
If you're going to break it, then break it good. Break everything. Get to the very front of the line. Don't like move up a couple of slots. That's pointless.
Anders Hejlsberg
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller