Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
If C didn't exist, we would be programming in OBOL, PASAL or BASI
Anonymous
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky