Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
Craig Bruce
I went to school to learn how to program software applications, which inevitably have bug defects. There was no course at my university on testing, debugging, profiling, or optimization. These things you have to learn on your own, usually in a tight deadline.
Juixe TechKnow
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
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Behind Every Successful Coder, there'an even more successful De-Coder to understand that Code.
Anonymous
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis