Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Alan J. Perlis
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt.
Blair P. Houghton
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
You can have a negative percent chance of succeeding in a task. For example, if you have a -5% chance of succeeding, not only will you fail every time you make an attempt, you will also fail 1 in 20 times that you don't even try.
Anonymous