Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet.
Chris Heilmann
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
Anonymous
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous