Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
* No technique works if it isn't used.
Niven's laws
* Ethics change with technology.
* "F × S = k" the product of freedom and security is a constant.
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton
The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.
Verity Stob