Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch
The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.
Alan J. Perlis
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
All programs have at least one bug remaining and can be optimized by one byte. Thus, by mathematical induction, all programs can be reduced to one byte. And it won't work.
Anonymous
Good programmers invest the effort to learn how to use current practices. Not-so-good programmers just learn the buzzwords, and that’s been a software industry constant for a half century.
Boris Beizer