Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
Agile Manifesto
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud