Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
Amateur programmers think there are 1000 bytes in a kilobyte; Real Programmers know there are 1024 meters in a kilometer.
Anonymous
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
What happens in the mind of a fine artist is nothing different from that going on in the mind of an expert coder. Both see and thrive in the quintessential nature of patterns.
Lawrence Mucheka
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare.