Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
It compiles. Ship it!
Anonymous
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
I was a C++ programmer before I started designing Ruby. I programmed in C++ exclusively for two or three years. And after two years of C++ programming, it still surprised me.
Matz
If we can't fix it, then it ain't broke.
Jon Bentley
All programs have at least one bug remaining and can be optimized by one byte. Thus, by mathematical induction, all programs can be reduced to one byte. And it won't work.
Anonymous
It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
Craig Bruce
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney