Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
Amateur programmers think there are 1000 bytes in a kilobyte; Real Programmers know there are 1024 meters in a kilometer.
Anonymous
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive down below.
John Dryden
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis