Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton
Multi-threading is the art of screwing things up before, during or after something else.
Anonymous
I was a C++ programmer before I started designing Ruby. I programmed in C++ exclusively for two or three years. And after two years of C++ programming, it still surprised me.
Matz
Don't code today what you can't debug tomorrow
Anonymous
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous