Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
Like wine, the mastery of programming matures with time. But, unlike wine, it gets sweeter in the process.
Lawrence Mucheka
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
Anonymous