Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder.
Anonymous
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
I Hate Programming.
Anonymous
I Hate Programming.
I Hate Programming.
It works!
I Love Programming.
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
Starting a startup is hard, but having a 9 to 5 job is hard too, and in some ways a worse kind of hard.
Paul Graham