Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
Anonymous
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MSDN
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong
When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
Anonymous
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
E. W. Dijkstra
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds