Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
Anonymous
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike
It works on my machine.
Anonymous
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous