Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.
Alan J. Perlis
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
Anonymous
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming is an unnatural act.
Alan J. Perlis
There are 10 types of people. Those who can read ternary, those who can't and those who mistake it for binary.
Anonymous
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous