Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
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
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.
Alan J. Perlis
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
Anonymous
Good web applications should look like trifle.
Cal Henderson