Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
One who works with their hands is a laborer.
Anonymous
One who works with their hands and their mind is a craftsman.
One who works with their hands, mind and heart is an artist.
The time machine's software will have a recursive main method.
Anonymous
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger Dijkstra
We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.
Alan J. Perlis
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive down below.
John Dryden