Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
Anonymous
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
It works on my machine.
Anonymous
If you're going to break it, then break it good. Break everything. Get to the very front of the line. Don't like move up a couple of slots. That's pointless.
Anders Hejlsberg
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it.
John Carmack