Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
You start writing code, I'll go see what the customer wants
Anonymous
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous