Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso