Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder.
Anonymous
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
You want a dot operator in PHP?
Matthew Leffler
eval(str_replace('.', '->', $code_with_dot_operator))
Good programmers invest the effort to learn how to use current practices. Not-so-good programmers just learn the buzzwords, and that’s been a software industry constant for a half century.
Boris Beizer
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian Kernighan
Development has two outputs... Code & Bugs
Anonymous
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.