Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
Craig Bruce
Good programmers invest the effort to learn how to use current practices. Not-so-good programmers just learn the buzzwords, and that’s been a software industry constant for a half century.
Boris Beizer
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous