Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
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
j++; // increment j
Anonymous
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis