Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
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
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
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
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
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law