Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When you want to do something differently from the rest of the world, it's a good idea to look into whether the rest of the world knows something you don't.
Anonymous
C++ has its place in the history of programming languages. Just as Caligula has his place in the history of the Roman Empire.
Robert Firth
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda
What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.
Alan J. Perlis
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis