Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
I've never written the best code I've ever written.
Anonymous
No one hates software more than software developers.
Jeff Atwood
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
"It depends" is the answer to all good software engineering questions, but to be a good software engineer, you should know on what it depends, and why.
Anonymous
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
Anonymous
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton