Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.
Alan J. Perlis
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.
Jason Hiner IT Dirty Secrets
Debuggers don't remove bugs. They only show them in slow motion.
Anonymous
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
You might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.
Verity Stob