Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
If C didn't exist, we would be programming in OBOL, PASAL or BASI
Anonymous
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
When a professional race car driver races, his pulse gets lower and he relaxes.
Jun-ichiro Hagino
When I code it is the same thing.
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford