Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction: One, it's completely impossible. Two, it's possible, but it's not worth doing. Three, I said it was a good idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis