Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Anonymous
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
Amateur programmers think there are 1000 bytes in a kilobyte; Real Programmers know there are 1024 meters in a kilometer.
Anonymous
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill