Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
The word “experienced” often refers to someone who’s gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
Laurence Gonzales
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis
When a professional race car driver races, his pulse gets lower and he relaxes.
Jun-ichiro Hagino
When I code it is the same thing.