Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
Sex is fun, but it probably doesn't solve all your problems.
Larry Wall