Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Every dark corner you haven't explored with your flashlight is full of bugs.
Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
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
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski