Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".
Alan J. Perlis
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
E. W. Dijkstra
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.
Alan J. Perlis
The difference between something that can go wrong and something that can’t possibly go wrong is that when something that can’t possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Adams
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh