Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
My programs don't have bugs, they just develop random features.
Anonymous
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell
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
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis