Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed — it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
Alan J. Perlis
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
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis