Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If your bug has a one in a million chance of happening, it'll happen next tuesday.
Anonymous
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive down below.
John Dryden
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Hanlon's Razor
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.
Alan J. Perlis