Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
Anonymous
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno