Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.
Alan J. Perlis
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
Anonymous
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
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
If C didn't exist, we would be programming in OBOL, PASAL or BASI
Anonymous