Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development.
Anonymous
Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development.
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
If C didn't exist, we would be programming in OBOL, PASAL or BASI
Anonymous
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein