Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The word “experienced” often refers to someone who’s gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
Laurence Gonzales
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
IBM Manual, 1925
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne