Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?
Anonymous
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous