Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programming is not like being in the CIA; you don't get credit for being sneaky. It's more like advertising; you get lots of credit for making your connections as blatant as possible.
Steve McConnell on coupling from, "Code Complete."
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.
Alan J. Perlis
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis