Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
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
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.
Alan J. Perlis
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis