Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
IBM Manual, 1925
With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority. If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.
Jen, "The IT Crowd"
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford