Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
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
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth