Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
Saying that Java is good because it works on all platforms is like saying anal sex is good because it works on all genders.
Anonymous