Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
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 ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
Education is the process of learning more and more about less and less until one knows everything about nothing and is entitled to call oneself 'Doctor'.
Anonymous
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall