Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I Hate Programming.
Anonymous
I Hate Programming.
I Hate Programming.
It works!
I Love Programming.
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.
Gavin Russell Baker
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
Craig Bruce
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein