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
* No technique works if it isn't used. * Ethics change with technology. * "F × S = k" the product of freedom and security is a constant.
Niven's laws
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Debuggers don't remove bugs. They only show them in slow motion.
Anonymous
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous