Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
I went to school to learn how to program software applications, which inevitably have bug defects. There was no course at my university on testing, debugging, profiling, or optimization. These things you have to learn on your own, usually in a tight deadline.
Juixe TechKnow
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
Anonymous
If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.
Alan J. Perlis
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
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