Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
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
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh