Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov
The sooner we start coding fewer frameworks and more programs the sooner we’ll become better programmers.
Warped Java Guy Elementary Java Solutions
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
The word “experienced” often refers to someone who’s gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
Laurence Gonzales
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis