Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering
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
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
Ken Thompson
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous