Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar
Blame doesn't fix bugs.
Anonymous
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's Worth.' This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value.
Niklaus Wirth
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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