Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski
[The common definition of estimate is] "An estimate is the most optimistic prediction that has a non-zero probability of coming true" . . .
Tom DeMarco
Accepting this definition leads irrevocably toward a method called what's-the-earliest- date-by-which-you-can't-prove-you-won't-be- finished estimating.
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
It works on my machine.
Anonymous
If your bug has a one in a million chance of happening, it'll happen next tuesday.
Anonymous
Editing is a rewording activity.
Alan J. Perlis
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis