Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill
Optimization hinders evolution.
Alan J. Perlis
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
Craig Bruce
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian Kernighan