Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod
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
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.
Alan J. Perlis
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
Agile Manifesto