Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Anonymous
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.
Alan J. Perlis
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous
The C Programming Language — A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.
Anonymous
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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