Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The time machine's software will have a recursive main method.
Anonymous
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan J. Perlis
Rules are for the obedience of the inexperienced and the guidance of the wise.
Anonymous
C is quirky, flawed and an enormous success.
Dennis Ritchie
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Gordon Bell
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
E. W. Dijkstra
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous