Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Like wine, the mastery of programming matures with time. But, unlike wine, it gets sweeter in the process.
Lawrence Mucheka
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering
Multi-threading is the art of screwing things up before, during or after something else.
Anonymous
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
Ted Nelson
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
Ever spend a little time reading comp.lang.c++ ? That's really the best place to learn about the number of C++ users looking for a better language.
R. William Beckwith
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive down below.
John Dryden
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis