Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Anonymous
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center
Think of compilation as cooking. Dynamic typing means the steak is juicy and still a little red, like red meat is supposed to be. Static typing means you burnt it to a crisp.
Erik Naggum