Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous