Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch
I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.
Dennie van Tassel
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
Optimization hinders evolution.
Alan J. Perlis
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin