Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.
Alan J. Perlis
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.
Alan J. Perlis
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Jamie Zawinski
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis