Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein
I know it doesn't sound like a big effort, but programmers are really, really lazy, and they like to minimize motion. They'd use feeder tubes if the Health Department would let them.
Steve Yegge
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely