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 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
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
Ted Nelson
People who find Wiki-markup too difficult to use and need a WYSIWYG-editor shouldn't be using a Wiki in the first place.
Anonymous
Once you've dressed and before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take at least one thing off.
Coco Chanel
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky