Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
Programming is an unnatural act.
Alan J. Perlis
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Larry Bossidy
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
Anonymous
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth