Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
If you don't think you're doing great things, you're probably right.
Anonymous
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
Larry Wall
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare.
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis