Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.
Charles M Strauss
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
You might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
E. W. Dijkstra
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Anonymous