Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
Alan J. Perlis
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis