Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous
Startups almost never get it right the first time. Much more commonly you launch something, and no one cares. Don’t assume when this happens that you’ve failed. That’s normal for startups. But don’t sit around doing nothing. Iterate.
Paul Graham