Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
I know it doesn't sound like a big effort, but programmers are really, really lazy, and they like to minimize motion. They'd use feeder tubes if the Health Department would let them.
Steve Yegge
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
Education is the process of learning more and more about less and less until one knows everything about nothing and is entitled to call oneself 'Doctor'.
Anonymous
Once you've dressed and before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take at least one thing off.
Coco Chanel
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
[The common definition of estimate is] "An estimate is the most optimistic prediction that has a non-zero probability of coming true" . . .
Tom DeMarco
Accepting this definition leads irrevocably toward a method called what's-the-earliest- date-by-which-you-can't-prove-you-won't-be- finished estimating.