Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
If you don't think you're doing great things, you're probably right.
Anonymous
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan J. Perlis
You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.
Jason Hiner IT Dirty Secrets
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
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.
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