Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar