Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud