Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.
Alan J. Perlis
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
Anonymous
Every dark corner you haven't explored with your flashlight is full of bugs.
Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Wernher von Braun
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous