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
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan J. Perlis
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
When you want to do something differently from the rest of the world, it's a good idea to look into whether the rest of the world knows something you don't.
Anonymous
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
[The common definition of estimate is] "An estimate is the most optimistic prediction that has a non-zero probability of coming true" . . .
Tom DeMarco
Accepting this definition leads irrevocably toward a method called what's-the-earliest- date-by-which-you-can't-prove-you-won't-be- finished estimating.
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.
Alan J. Perlis