Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.
Alan J. Perlis
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall