Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.
Alan J. Perlis
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Anonymous
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood