Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.
Jason Hiner IT Dirty Secrets
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
The most important computer is the one that rages in our skulls and ever seeks that satisfactory external emulator. The standarization of real computers would be a disaster - and so it probably won't happen.
Alan J. Perlis
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
Development has two outputs... Code & Bugs
Anonymous
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous