Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
Development has two outputs... Code & Bugs
Anonymous
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction: One, it's completely impossible. Two, it's possible, but it's not worth doing. Three, I said it was a good idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian Kernighan
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White