Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
E. W. Dijkstra
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger Dijkstra