Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's Worth.' This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value.
Niklaus Wirth
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
If C didn't exist, we would be programming in OBOL, PASAL or BASI
Anonymous
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous