Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to a system.
Fernando J. Corbató
A programmer started to cuss
Anonymous
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
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
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.
Alan J. Perlis