Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis