Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
Anonymous
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan J. Perlis
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
If you don't think you're doing great things, you're probably right.
Anonymous
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra