Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
Anonymous
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
C++ has its place in the history of programming languages. Just as Caligula has his place in the history of the Roman Empire.
Robert Firth