Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous
I've never written the best code I've ever written.
Anonymous
No one hates software more than software developers.
Jeff Atwood
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley
Code is everything I thought poetry was, back when we were in school. Clean, expressive, urgent, all-encompassing. Fourteen lines can open up to fill the available universe.
Richard Powers
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott