Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
Rules are for the obedience of the inexperienced and the guidance of the wise.
Anonymous
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction: One, it's completely impossible. Two, it's possible, but it's not worth doing. Three, I said it was a good idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford