Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
Dan Kaminsky
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
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh