Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.
Alan J. Perlis
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
We better hurry up and start coding, there are going to be a lot of bugs to fix.
Anonymous
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers