Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
My assertion that we can do better with computer languages is a persistent belief and fond hope, but you'll note I don't actually claim to be either rational or right. Except when it's convenient.
Larry Wall
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
In C, its easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it more difficult, but when you do, you'll blow your whole leg off.
Stroustrup
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
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly