Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Alan J. Perlis
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
When a professional race car driver races, his pulse gets lower and he relaxes.
Jun-ichiro Hagino
When I code it is the same thing.
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
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.
Randal Schwartz
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous