Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis
What happens in the mind of a fine artist is nothing different from that going on in the mind of an expert coder. Both see and thrive in the quintessential nature of patterns.
Lawrence Mucheka
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler