Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon
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
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
Alan J. Perlis
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous