Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.
Alan J. Perlis
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
I Hate Programming.
Anonymous
I Hate Programming.
I Hate Programming.
It works!
I Love Programming.
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas