Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you're going to break it, then break it good. Break everything. Get to the very front of the line. Don't like move up a couple of slots. That's pointless.
Anders Hejlsberg
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.
Randal Schwartz
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Larry Bossidy
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay