Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If we can't fix it, then it ain't broke.
Jon Bentley
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
Alan J. Perlis
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
Steve McConnell
j++; // increment j
Anonymous
Like wine, the mastery of programming matures with time. But, unlike wine, it gets sweeter in the process.
Lawrence Mucheka
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
If you don't think you're doing great things, you're probably right.
Anonymous