Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.
Steve Yegge
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
There are 10 types of people. Those who can read ternary, those who can't and those who mistake it for binary.
Anonymous
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous