Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
Programming is an unnatural act.
Alan J. Perlis
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
"It depends" is the answer to all good software engineering questions, but to be a good software engineer, you should know on what it depends, and why.
Anonymous
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis