Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
Ever spend a little time reading comp.lang.c++ ? That's really the best place to learn about the number of C++ users looking for a better language.
R. William Beckwith
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous