Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Jamie Zawinski
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
Anonymous
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham