Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian Kernighan
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod
People who find Wiki-markup too difficult to use and need a WYSIWYG-editor shouldn't be using a Wiki in the first place.
Anonymous
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis