Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.
Charles M Strauss
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan J. Perlis
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson