Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP
A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Anonymous
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
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