Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Test driven development is like eating watermelon. Slice it up and work in sections at a time; eat all the red until all you have left is green.
Terry L Thompson
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.
Alan J. Perlis
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
C is quirky, flawed and an enormous success.
Dennis Ritchie
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous