Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
Anonymous
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.
Dennie van Tassel
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen