Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
People who find Wiki-markup too difficult to use and need a WYSIWYG-editor shouldn't be using a Wiki in the first place.
Anonymous
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger
Selecting a project due date before the requirements are properly gathered is like selecting which corner you want to paint yourself into, while simultaneously negating the doorway as a viable option.
Chris Ames
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond