Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.
Alan J. Perlis
It works on my machine.
Anonymous
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis