Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't code today what you can't debug tomorrow
Anonymous
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
Alan J. Perlis
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous