Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.
Jon Ribbens
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.
Alan J. Perlis
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar
To most Java developers, Ruby/Rails is like a mistress. Ruby/Rails is young, new, and exciting; but eventually we go back to old faithful, dependable, and employable Java with some new tricks and idioms and we are the better programmer for it.
Juixe TechKnow
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman