Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso