Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
I Hate Programming.
Anonymous
I Hate Programming.
I Hate Programming.
It works!
I Love Programming.
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
Alan J. Perlis
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development.
Anonymous
Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development.
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong