Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
Test driven development is like eating watermelon. Slice it up and work in sections at a time; eat all the red until all you have left is green.
Terry L Thompson
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
Dan Kaminsky
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
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
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick