Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".
Alan J. Perlis
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous