Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Wernher von Braun