Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.
Alan J. Perlis
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
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous