Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
Programming is an unnatural act.
Alan J. Perlis
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
Anonymous
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis