Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to a system.
Fernando J. Corbató
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.
Alan J. Perlis
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous