Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger Dijkstra
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
Alan J. Perlis
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis