Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
No one hates software more than software developers.
Jeff Atwood
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945