Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.
Charles M Strauss
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
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Mitch Ratcliffe
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous
If we can't fix it, then it ain't broke.
Jon Bentley
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous