Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
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
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
I was a C++ programmer before I started designing Ruby. I programmed in C++ exclusively for two or three years. And after two years of C++ programming, it still surprised me.
Matz
Process is no substitute for synaptic activity.
Jeff DeLuca