Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
I went to school to learn how to program software applications, which inevitably have bug defects. There was no course at my university on testing, debugging, profiling, or optimization. These things you have to learn on your own, usually in a tight deadline.
Juixe TechKnow
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson