Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.
Jason Hiner IT Dirty Secrets
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
It's interface, not in your face.
Kai Krause
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
E. W. Dijkstra