Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
Editing is a rewording activity.
Alan J. Perlis