Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
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