Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
Alan J. Perlis
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
No one hates software more than software developers.
Jeff Atwood
C++ is more of a rube-goldberg type thing full of high-voltages, large chain-driven gears, sharp edges, exploding widgets, and spots to get your fingers crushed. And because of it's complexity many (if not most) of it's users don't know how it works, and can't tell ahead of time what's going to cause them to loose an arm.
Grant Edwards
You might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage