Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications