Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis
Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.
Alan J. Perlis