Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
Anonymous
In C, its easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it more difficult, but when you do, you'll blow your whole leg off.
Stroustrup
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming is difficult. At its core, it is about managing complexity. Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make. Quality is illusive and elusive.
Douglas Crockford
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge