Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
Like wine, the mastery of programming matures with time. But, unlike wine, it gets sweeter in the process.
Lawrence Mucheka
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.
Jon Ribbens
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.
Alan J. Perlis