Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
Anonymous
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous