Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
Never trust a programmer in a suit.
Anonymous
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
I went to school to learn how to program software applications, which inevitably have bug defects. There was no course at my university on testing, debugging, profiling, or optimization. These things you have to learn on your own, usually in a tight deadline.
Juixe TechKnow
What happens in the mind of a fine artist is nothing different from that going on in the mind of an expert coder. Both see and thrive in the quintessential nature of patterns.
Lawrence Mucheka
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis