Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein
We better hurry up and start coding, there are going to be a lot of bugs to fix.
Anonymous
The word “experienced” often refers to someone who’s gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
Laurence Gonzales
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous
Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
Alan J. Perlis
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous