Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
E. W. Dijkstra
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.
Chris Sacca
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Gordon Bell
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe