Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.
Dennie van Tassel
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law