Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.
Alan J. Perlis
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
Agile Manifesto
A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Anonymous
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
I was a C++ programmer before I started designing Ruby. I programmed in C++ exclusively for two or three years. And after two years of C++ programming, it still surprised me.
Matz
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
Ken Thompson
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.
Alan J. Perlis