Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.