Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Blame doesn't fix bugs.
Anonymous
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
Rules are for the obedience of the inexperienced and the guidance of the wise.
Anonymous
Process is no substitute for synaptic activity.
Jeff DeLuca
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.
Alan J. Perlis
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra