Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
... what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like "Structured Analysis and Design", "Software Engineering", "Maturity Models", "Management Information Systems", "Integrated Project Support Environments" "Object Orientation" and "Business Process Re-engineering" (the latter three being known as IPSE, OO and BPR, respectively).
Edsger W. Dijkstra