Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
If your bug has a one in a million chance of happening, it'll happen next tuesday.
Anonymous
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Gordon Bell
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
To most Java developers, Ruby/Rails is like a mistress. Ruby/Rails is young, new, and exciting; but eventually we go back to old faithful, dependable, and employable Java with some new tricks and idioms and we are the better programmer for it.
Juixe TechKnow
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous