Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
[The common definition of estimate is] "An estimate is the most optimistic prediction that has a non-zero probability of coming true" . . . Accepting this definition leads irrevocably toward a method called what's-the-earliest- date-by-which-you-can't-prove-you-won't-be- finished estimating.
Tom DeMarco