Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
If C didn't exist, we would be programming in OBOL, PASAL or BASI
Anonymous
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction: One, it's completely impossible. Two, it's possible, but it's not worth doing. Three, I said it was a good idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis