Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.
Alan J. Perlis
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
If you don't think you're doing great things, you're probably right.
Anonymous