Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Sex is fun, but it probably doesn't solve all your problems.
Larry Wall
Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.
Alan J. Perlis
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
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
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous