Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
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
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
Anonymous
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
Ted Nelson