Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.
Alan J. Perlis