Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Larry Bossidy
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
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
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Anonymous
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler