Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan
I've never written the best code I've ever written.
Anonymous
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
... 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
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis