Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
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
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
There are 10 types of people. Those who can read ternary, those who can't and those who mistake it for binary.
Anonymous
One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
Alan J. Perlis
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler