Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis