Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
Blame doesn't fix bugs.
Anonymous
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
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
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
Once you've dressed and before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take at least one thing off.
Coco Chanel
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
Think of compilation as cooking. Dynamic typing means the steak is juicy and still a little red, like red meat is supposed to be. Static typing means you burnt it to a crisp.
Erik Naggum
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski