Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
Blame doesn't fix bugs.
Anonymous
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian Kernighan