Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
A programmer started to cuss
Anonymous
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
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
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".
Alan J. Perlis
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis