Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous