Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive down below.
John Dryden
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
A computer scientist counts to ten: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ...
Anonymous
Everyone else counts to ten: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski