Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg