Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
It compiles. Ship it!
Anonymous
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
The time machine's software will have a recursive main method.
Anonymous
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous