Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.
Alan J. Perlis
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger Dijkstra
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
A programmer started to cuss
Anonymous
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon