Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
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
You start writing code, I'll go see what the customer wants
Anonymous
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis