Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous
It's interface, not in your face.
Kai Krause
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
A computer scientist counts to ten: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ...
Anonymous
Everyone else counts to ten: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan J. Perlis
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous