Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
Anonymous
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
Selecting a project due date before the requirements are properly gathered is like selecting which corner you want to paint yourself into, while simultaneously negating the doorway as a viable option.
Chris Ames
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks