Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Test driven development is like eating watermelon. Slice it up and work in sections at a time; eat all the red until all you have left is green.
Terry L Thompson
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to a system.
Fernando J. Corbató
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging