Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
Anonymous
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
Anonymous
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.
Alan J. Perlis
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis