Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
You might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.
Randal Schwartz
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
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