Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
Anonymous
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
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
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.
Alan J. Perlis