Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
You start writing code, I'll go see what the customer wants
Anonymous
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar