Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod
Optimization hinders evolution.
Alan J. Perlis
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan