Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell
It’s hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn’t a book on software design.
Bruce Tognazzini
Ever spend a little time reading comp.lang.c++ ? That's really the best place to learn about the number of C++ users looking for a better language.
R. William Beckwith
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Anonymous
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
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke