Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
Sex is fun, but it probably doesn't solve all your problems.
Larry Wall
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.
Randal Schwartz
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso