Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson
Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
Alan J. Perlis
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous