Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
Dan Kaminsky
One who works with their hands is a laborer.
Anonymous
One who works with their hands and their mind is a craftsman.
One who works with their hands, mind and heart is an artist.
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis