Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
Every dark corner you haven't explored with your flashlight is full of bugs.
Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
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
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
The time machine's software will have a recursive main method.
Anonymous
Programming is an unnatural act.
Alan J. Perlis