Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous
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
Never trust a programmer in a suit.
Anonymous
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates