Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda
My programs don't have bugs, they just develop random features.
Anonymous
Selecting a project due date before the requirements are properly gathered is like selecting which corner you want to paint yourself into, while simultaneously negating the doorway as a viable option.
Chris Ames
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle