Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
Ted Nelson
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
Anonymous
I went to school to learn how to program software applications, which inevitably have bug defects. There was no course at my university on testing, debugging, profiling, or optimization. These things you have to learn on your own, usually in a tight deadline.
Juixe TechKnow
Make it correct,
Wes Dyer
make it clear,
make it concise,
make it fast.
In that order.
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.
Alan J. Perlis
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous