Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
Good programmers invest the effort to learn how to use current practices. Not-so-good programmers just learn the buzzwords, and that’s been a software industry constant for a half century.
Boris Beizer
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center