Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
It compiles. Ship it!
Anonymous
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen