Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
Debuggers don't remove bugs. They only show them in slow motion.
Anonymous
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis