Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
Think of compilation as cooking. Dynamic typing means the steak is juicy and still a little red, like red meat is supposed to be. Static typing means you burnt it to a crisp.
Erik Naggum
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law
What happens in the mind of a fine artist is nothing different from that going on in the mind of an expert coder. Both see and thrive in the quintessential nature of patterns.
Lawrence Mucheka