Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare.
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis