Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
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.
Douglas Adams
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams