Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
Steve McConnell
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
IBM Manual, 1925
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous