Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
Every dark corner you haven't explored with your flashlight is full of bugs.
Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Alan J. Perlis
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
Test driven development is like eating watermelon. Slice it up and work in sections at a time; eat all the red until all you have left is green.
Terry L Thompson
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous