Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.
Chris Sacca
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
Anonymous