Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law