Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger Dijkstra
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
Anonymous
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much