Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
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
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
Don't code today what you can't debug tomorrow
Anonymous
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein