Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.
Alan J. Perlis
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center
Every dark corner you haven't explored with your flashlight is full of bugs.
Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
Editing is a rewording activity.
Alan J. Perlis
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere