Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.
Larry McVoy
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld