Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to a system.
Fernando J. Corbató
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law
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
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous