Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
Anonymous
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger Dijkstra
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
If your bug has a one in a million chance of happening, it'll happen next tuesday.
Anonymous
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis