Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
Code is everything I thought poetry was, back when we were in school. Clean, expressive, urgent, all-encompassing. Fourteen lines can open up to fill the available universe.
Richard Powers
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
You start writing code, I'll go see what the customer wants
Anonymous