Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
My programs don't have bugs, they just develop random features.
Anonymous
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
Process is no substitute for synaptic activity.
Jeff DeLuca
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
The word “experienced” often refers to someone who’s gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
Laurence Gonzales
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra