Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority. If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.
Jen, "The IT Crowd"
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
I went to school to learn how to program software applications, which inevitably have bug defects. There was no course at my university on testing, debugging, profiling, or optimization. These things you have to learn on your own, usually in a tight deadline.
Juixe TechKnow
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov