Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis