Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
Anonymous
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
A computer scientist counts to ten: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ... Everyone else counts to ten: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Anonymous
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
Process is no substitute for synaptic activity.
Jeff DeLuca
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous