Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous
I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.
Dennie van Tassel
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler