Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
Good web applications should look like trifle.
Cal Henderson
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis