Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
[The common definition of estimate is] "An estimate is the most optimistic prediction that has a non-zero probability of coming true" . . .
Tom DeMarco
Accepting this definition leads irrevocably toward a method called what's-the-earliest- date-by-which-you-can't-prove-you-won't-be- finished estimating.
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds