Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
The word “experienced” often refers to someone who’s gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
Laurence Gonzales
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
Selecting a project due date before the requirements are properly gathered is like selecting which corner you want to paint yourself into, while simultaneously negating the doorway as a viable option.
Chris Ames
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra