Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
"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
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
Dan Kaminsky
I Hate Programming.
Anonymous
I Hate Programming.
I Hate Programming.
It works!
I Love Programming.
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay