Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
Larry Wall
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous