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Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.

Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll

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• Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.

  Anonymous

• A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.

  Alan J. Perlis

• Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.

  Anonymous

• Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.

  Larry McVoy

• C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.

  Anonymous

• Testing like the TSA.

  David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much

• We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?

  Alan J. Perlis

• Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

  Antoine de Saint Exupéry

• You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.

  Anonymous

• There is no IRL, only AFK

  Anonymous