Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
Anonymous
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
Agile Manifesto
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis