Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis