Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
If you're going to break it, then break it good. Break everything. Get to the very front of the line. Don't like move up a couple of slots. That's pointless.
Anders Hejlsberg
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
[The common definition of estimate is] "An estimate is the most optimistic prediction that has a non-zero probability of coming true" . . . Accepting this definition leads irrevocably toward a method called what's-the-earliest- date-by-which-you-can't-prove-you-won't-be- finished estimating.
Tom DeMarco