Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
E. W. Dijkstra
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous