Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
Programming is not like being in the CIA; you don't get credit for being sneaky. It's more like advertising; you get lots of credit for making your connections as blatant as possible.
Steve McConnell on coupling from, "Code Complete."
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
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