Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development.
Anonymous
Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development.
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
Alan J. Perlis
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous