Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center