Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Alan J. Perlis
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell
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
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
Steve McConnell
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can't always tell the difference.
Jeff Atwood
It works on my machine.
Anonymous
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth