Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
All programs have at least one bug remaining and can be optimized by one byte. Thus, by mathematical induction, all programs can be reduced to one byte. And it won't work.
Anonymous
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
Anonymous
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis