Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.
Jason Hiner IT Dirty Secrets
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Wernher von Braun
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay