Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.
Anonymous
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming
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
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare