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
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.
Charles M Strauss
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
It's interface, not in your face.
Kai Krause
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong