Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott