Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Development has two outputs... Code & Bugs
Anonymous
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law
You start writing code, I'll go see what the customer wants
Anonymous
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
Dan Kaminsky
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
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