Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan J. Perlis
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
I went to school to learn how to program software applications, which inevitably have bug defects. There was no course at my university on testing, debugging, profiling, or optimization. These things you have to learn on your own, usually in a tight deadline.
Juixe TechKnow
It's interface, not in your face.
Kai Krause
If your bug has a one in a million chance of happening, it'll happen next tuesday.
Anonymous
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
I've never written the best code I've ever written.
Anonymous