Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
All programs have at least one bug remaining and can be optimized by one byte. Thus, by mathematical induction, all programs can be reduced to one byte. And it won't work.
Anonymous
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
It compiles. Ship it!
Anonymous
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell