Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall