Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen