Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth