Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis