Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
Startups almost never get it right the first time. Much more commonly you launch something, and no one cares. Don’t assume when this happens that you’ve failed. That’s normal for startups. But don’t sit around doing nothing. Iterate.
Paul Graham
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Alan J. Perlis
Ever spend a little time reading comp.lang.c++ ? That's really the best place to learn about the number of C++ users looking for a better language.
R. William Beckwith
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds