Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
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
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
It compiles. Ship it!
Anonymous
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck