Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks