Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
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
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
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
I know it doesn't sound like a big effort, but programmers are really, really lazy, and they like to minimize motion. They'd use feeder tubes if the Health Department would let them.
Steve Yegge
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Anonymous