Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
Think of compilation as cooking. Dynamic typing means the steak is juicy and still a little red, like red meat is supposed to be. Static typing means you burnt it to a crisp.
Erik Naggum
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
One who works with their hands is a laborer.
Anonymous
One who works with their hands and their mind is a craftsman.
One who works with their hands, mind and heart is an artist.
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
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
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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