Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.
Edsger Dijkstra
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
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
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous