Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
Sex is fun, but it probably doesn't solve all your problems.
Larry Wall
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
Anonymous
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Wernher von Braun
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis