Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can't always tell the difference.
Jeff Atwood
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
* No technique works if it isn't used. * Ethics change with technology. * "F × S = k" the product of freedom and security is a constant.
Niven's laws