Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
"It depends" is the answer to all good software engineering questions, but to be a good software engineer, you should know on what it depends, and why.
Anonymous
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law