Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
Alan J. Perlis
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike
Manually managing blocks of memory in C is like juggling bars of soap in a prison shower: It's all fun and games until you forget about one of them.
Anonymous
No one hates software more than software developers.
Jeff Atwood
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis