Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
Anonymous
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous
C is quirky, flawed and an enormous success.
Dennis Ritchie
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
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
Don't code today what you can't debug tomorrow
Anonymous
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis