Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's Worth.' This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value.
Niklaus Wirth
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
Agile Manifesto
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
Like wine, the mastery of programming matures with time. But, unlike wine, it gets sweeter in the process.
Lawrence Mucheka
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.