Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
Steve McConnell
"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
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945