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
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
Process is no substitute for synaptic activity.
Jeff DeLuca
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill