Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup
You can have a negative percent chance of succeeding in a task. For example, if you have a -5% chance of succeeding, not only will you fail every time you make an attempt, you will also fail 1 in 20 times that you don't even try.
Anonymous
Programming is an unnatural act.
Alan J. Perlis
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
A computer scientist counts to ten: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ...
Anonymous
Everyone else counts to ten: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Good programmers invest the effort to learn how to use current practices. Not-so-good programmers just learn the buzzwords, and that’s been a software industry constant for a half century.
Boris Beizer
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous