Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
Alan J. Perlis
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian Kernighan
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis
C is quirky, flawed and an enormous success.
Dennis Ritchie
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon