Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
I've never written the best code I've ever written.
Anonymous
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?
Anonymous
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
Development has two outputs... Code & Bugs
Anonymous
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
Anonymous
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis