Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
The difference between something that can go wrong and something that can’t possibly go wrong is that when something that can’t possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Adams
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis
... what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like "Structured Analysis and Design", "Software Engineering", "Maturity Models", "Management Information Systems", "Integrated Project Support Environments" "Object Orientation" and "Business Process Re-engineering" (the latter three being known as IPSE, OO and BPR, respectively).
Edsger W. Dijkstra
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous