Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
A computer scientist counts to ten: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ...
Anonymous
Everyone else counts to ten: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill