Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder.
Anonymous
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
Good web applications should look like trifle.
Cal Henderson
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
People who think, "Oh this is a one-off," need to be offed, or perhaps politely removed from the project.
George Neville-Neil