Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
Steve McConnell
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
Anonymous
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan J. Perlis