Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
It works on my machine.
Anonymous
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.
Alan J. Perlis
Code is everything I thought poetry was, back when we were in school. Clean, expressive, urgent, all-encompassing. Fourteen lines can open up to fill the available universe.
Richard Powers
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous