Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
Good programmers invest the effort to learn how to use current practices. Not-so-good programmers just learn the buzzwords, and that’s been a software industry constant for a half century.
Boris Beizer
You start writing code, I'll go see what the customer wants
Anonymous
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
Steve McConnell
Every dark corner you haven't explored with your flashlight is full of bugs.
Kent Beck and Martin Fowler