Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
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
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
Ted Nelson
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken