Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
Alan J. Perlis
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton
When a professional race car driver races, his pulse gets lower and he relaxes.
Jun-ichiro Hagino
When I code it is the same thing.
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken