Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian Kernighan
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
If you're going to break it, then break it good. Break everything. Get to the very front of the line. Don't like move up a couple of slots. That's pointless.
Anders Hejlsberg
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous