Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Anonymous
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.
Gavin Russell Baker
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler
Blame doesn't fix bugs.
Anonymous