Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Hanlon's Razor
Code is everything I thought poetry was, back when we were in school. Clean, expressive, urgent, all-encompassing. Fourteen lines can open up to fill the available universe.
Richard Powers
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
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
* No technique works if it isn't used. * Ethics change with technology. * "F × S = k" the product of freedom and security is a constant.
Niven's laws
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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