Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson
One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
Alan J. Perlis
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis