Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Hanlon's Razor
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
Starting a startup is hard, but having a 9 to 5 job is hard too, and in some ways a worse kind of hard.
Paul Graham
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
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
I've never written the best code I've ever written.
Anonymous
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous