Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry
One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
Alan J. Perlis
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Anonymous
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman