Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Debuggers don't remove bugs. They only show them in slow motion.
Anonymous
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
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
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
It works on my machine.
Anonymous
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous