Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
To most Java developers, Ruby/Rails is like a mistress. Ruby/Rails is young, new, and exciting; but eventually we go back to old faithful, dependable, and employable Java with some new tricks and idioms and we are the better programmer for it.
Juixe TechKnow
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
Alan J. Perlis
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger Dijkstra
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison