Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.
Charles M Strauss
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous