Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't code today what you can't debug tomorrow
Anonymous
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley
A computer scientist counts to ten: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ...
Anonymous
Everyone else counts to ten: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications