Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
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
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous
A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Anonymous
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
E.F. Schumacher
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis