Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
C++ has its place in the history of programming languages. Just as Caligula has his place in the history of the Roman Empire.
Robert Firth
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
Alan J. Perlis
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
IBM Manual, 1925
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski