Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
Blame doesn't fix bugs.
Anonymous
C is quirky, flawed and an enormous success.
Dennis Ritchie
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization