Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
Agile Manifesto
All programs have at least one bug remaining and can be optimized by one byte. Thus, by mathematical induction, all programs can be reduced to one byte. And it won't work.
Anonymous
Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.
Alan J. Perlis
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
People who find Wiki-markup too difficult to use and need a WYSIWYG-editor shouldn't be using a Wiki in the first place.
Anonymous