Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
"It depends" is the answer to all good software engineering questions, but to be a good software engineer, you should know on what it depends, and why.
Anonymous
Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.
Alan J. Perlis
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
Anonymous