Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Behind Every Successful Coder, there'an even more successful De-Coder to understand that Code.
Anonymous
Test driven development is like eating watermelon. Slice it up and work in sections at a time; eat all the red until all you have left is green.
Terry L Thompson
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
One who works with their hands is a laborer.
Anonymous
One who works with their hands and their mind is a craftsman.
One who works with their hands, mind and heart is an artist.
I know it doesn't sound like a big effort, but programmers are really, really lazy, and they like to minimize motion. They'd use feeder tubes if the Health Department would let them.
Steve Yegge
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson
You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.
Jason Hiner IT Dirty Secrets
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis