Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous