Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Gordon Bell
Blame doesn't fix bugs.
Anonymous
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
The difference between something that can go wrong and something that can’t possibly go wrong is that when something that can’t possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Adams
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
Anonymous