Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
If you're going to break it, then break it good. Break everything. Get to the very front of the line. Don't like move up a couple of slots. That's pointless.
Anders Hejlsberg
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
Ever spend a little time reading comp.lang.c++ ? That's really the best place to learn about the number of C++ users looking for a better language.
R. William Beckwith
We better hurry up and start coding, there are going to be a lot of bugs to fix.
Anonymous
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
Ken Thompson
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas