Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.
Larry McVoy
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
I went to school to learn how to program software applications, which inevitably have bug defects. There was no course at my university on testing, debugging, profiling, or optimization. These things you have to learn on your own, usually in a tight deadline.
Juixe TechKnow
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
People who think, "Oh this is a one-off," need to be offed, or perhaps politely removed from the project.
George Neville-Neil