Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.
Alan J. Perlis
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
Steve McConnell
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization