Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
Dan Kaminsky
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.
Charles M Strauss
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick