Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis