Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham
C++ is more of a rube-goldberg type thing full of high-voltages, large chain-driven gears, sharp edges, exploding widgets, and spots to get your fingers crushed. And because of it's complexity many (if not most) of it's users don't know how it works, and can't tell ahead of time what's going to cause them to loose an arm.
Grant Edwards
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
Every dark corner you haven't explored with your flashlight is full of bugs.
Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
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