Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
I was a C++ programmer before I started designing Ruby. I programmed in C++ exclusively for two or three years. And after two years of C++ programming, it still surprised me.
Matz
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis