Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis
First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.
John Johnson
Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder.
Anonymous
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
My assertion that we can do better with computer languages is a persistent belief and fond hope, but you'll note I don't actually claim to be either rational or right. Except when it's convenient.
Larry Wall
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen