Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
Anonymous
Programming is an unnatural act.
Alan J. Perlis
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
You start writing code, I'll go see what the customer wants
Anonymous
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly