Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
Code is everything I thought poetry was, back when we were in school. Clean, expressive, urgent, all-encompassing. Fourteen lines can open up to fill the available universe.
Richard Powers
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.
Alan J. Perlis
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++.
David Jameson
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis