Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan
The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++.
David Jameson
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Alan J. Perlis
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
Alan J. Perlis
Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.
Steve Yegge
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry