Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Hanlon's Razor
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
Editing is a rewording activity.
Alan J. Perlis