Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
I was a C++ programmer before I started designing Ruby. I programmed in C++ exclusively for two or three years. And after two years of C++ programming, it still surprised me.
Matz
C is quirky, flawed and an enormous success.
Dennis Ritchie