Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
I was a C++ programmer before I started designing Ruby. I programmed in C++ exclusively for two or three years. And after two years of C++ programming, it still surprised me.
Matz
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
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
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain