Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
It works on my machine.
Anonymous
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
Anonymous
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
Anonymous
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz