Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
All programs have at least one bug remaining and can be optimized by one byte. Thus, by mathematical induction, all programs can be reduced to one byte. And it won't work.
Anonymous
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous