Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
Steve McConnell
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian Kernighan
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton