Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis