Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
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
If we can't fix it, then it ain't broke.
Jon Bentley
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
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