Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
No one hates software more than software developers.
Jeff Atwood
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
Anonymous
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford
I went to school to learn how to program software applications, which inevitably have bug defects. There was no course at my university on testing, debugging, profiling, or optimization. These things you have to learn on your own, usually in a tight deadline.
Juixe TechKnow
Once you've dressed and before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take at least one thing off.
Coco Chanel
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis