Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
My programs don't have bugs, they just develop random features.
Anonymous
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
Anonymous
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
Anonymous
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
Good programmers invest the effort to learn how to use current practices. Not-so-good programmers just learn the buzzwords, and that’s been a software industry constant for a half century.
Boris Beizer
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis