Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous
If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.
Alan J. Perlis
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous