Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
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
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
Blame doesn't fix bugs.
Anonymous