Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan J. Perlis
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.
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
I was a C++ programmer before I started designing Ruby. I programmed in C++ exclusively for two or three years. And after two years of C++ programming, it still surprised me.
Matz
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Anonymous
Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".
Alan J. Perlis
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie