Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
Anonymous
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous
First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.
John Johnson
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer