Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry
Amateur programmers think there are 1000 bytes in a kilobyte; Real Programmers know there are 1024 meters in a kilometer.
Anonymous
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous