Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive down below.
John Dryden
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
Manually managing blocks of memory in C is like juggling bars of soap in a prison shower: It's all fun and games until you forget about one of them.
Anonymous
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
A computer scientist counts to ten: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ...
Anonymous
Everyone else counts to ten: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.
Jason Hiner IT Dirty Secrets
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Jamie Zawinski