Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
[The common definition of estimate is] "An estimate is the most optimistic prediction that has a non-zero probability of coming true" . . . Accepting this definition leads irrevocably toward a method called what's-the-earliest- date-by-which-you-can't-prove-you-won't-be- finished estimating.
Tom DeMarco
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis