Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
Programming is difficult. At its core, it is about managing complexity. Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make. Quality is illusive and elusive.
Douglas Crockford
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous