Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan J. Perlis
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
If your bug has a one in a million chance of happening, it'll happen next tuesday.
Anonymous
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Anonymous
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming
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
One who works with their hands is a laborer.
Anonymous
One who works with their hands and their mind is a craftsman.
One who works with their hands, mind and heart is an artist.