Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
... 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
Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.
Alan J. Perlis
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder.
Anonymous
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Alan J. Perlis
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott