Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder.
Anonymous
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
Anonymous
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis