Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis