Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.
Alan J. Perlis
All programs have at least one bug remaining and can be optimized by one byte. Thus, by mathematical induction, all programs can be reduced to one byte. And it won't work.
Anonymous
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
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