Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar