Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
The word “experienced” often refers to someone who’s gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
Laurence Gonzales
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?
Anonymous
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis