Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
IBM Manual, 1925
I went to school to learn how to program software applications, which inevitably have bug defects. There was no course at my university on testing, debugging, profiling, or optimization. These things you have to learn on your own, usually in a tight deadline.
Juixe TechKnow
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry