Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It compiles. Ship it!
Anonymous
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diedrich
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.
Alan J. Perlis