Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
You start writing code, I'll go see what the customer wants
Anonymous