Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley