Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke
"It depends" is the answer to all good software engineering questions, but to be a good software engineer, you should know on what it depends, and why.
Anonymous
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis