Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger Dijkstra
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
Ever spend a little time reading comp.lang.c++ ? That's really the best place to learn about the number of C++ users looking for a better language.
R. William Beckwith
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous