Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams