Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Blame doesn't fix bugs.
Anonymous
A programmer started to cuss
Anonymous
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous