Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
Code is everything I thought poetry was, back when we were in school. Clean, expressive, urgent, all-encompassing. Fourteen lines can open up to fill the available universe.
Richard Powers
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar