Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Once you've dressed and before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take at least one thing off.
Coco Chanel
Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
Good programmers invest the effort to learn how to use current practices. Not-so-good programmers just learn the buzzwords, and that’s been a software industry constant for a half century.
Boris Beizer
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
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
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke