Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
The sooner we start coding fewer frameworks and more programs the sooner we’ll become better programmers.
Warped Java Guy Elementary Java Solutions
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis