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
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
If C didn't exist, we would be programming in OBOL, PASAL or BASI
Anonymous
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
You might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger