Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
No one hates software more than software developers.
Jeff Atwood
When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
Anonymous
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
Don't code today what you can't debug tomorrow
Anonymous
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay