Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
I went to school to learn how to program software applications, which inevitably have bug defects. There was no course at my university on testing, debugging, profiling, or optimization. These things you have to learn on your own, usually in a tight deadline.
Juixe TechKnow
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
...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
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey