Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
I went to school to learn how to program software applications, which inevitably have bug defects. There was no course at my university on testing, debugging, profiling, or optimization. These things you have to learn on your own, usually in a tight deadline.
Juixe TechKnow
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
Anonymous
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis