Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
One who works with their hands is a laborer.
Anonymous
One who works with their hands and their mind is a craftsman.
One who works with their hands, mind and heart is an artist.
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
Ted Nelson
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas
If you don't think you're doing great things, you're probably right.
Anonymous
If we can't fix it, then it ain't broke.
Jon Bentley
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis