Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.
Charles M Strauss
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso