Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
In C, its easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it more difficult, but when you do, you'll blow your whole leg off.
Stroustrup
Debuggers don't remove bugs. They only show them in slow motion.
Anonymous
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
Alan J. Perlis
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
Alan J. Perlis
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
With regard to adding more programmers to get a project done faster - Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
Fred Brooks
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous