Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
Ted Nelson
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.
Dennie van Tassel