Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
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
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.
Randal Schwartz
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous