Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
Alan J. Perlis
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer