Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
No one hates software more than software developers.
Jeff Atwood
If you're going to break it, then break it good. Break everything. Get to the very front of the line. Don't like move up a couple of slots. That's pointless.
Anders Hejlsberg
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis
Never trust a programmer in a suit.
Anonymous
Code is everything I thought poetry was, back when we were in school. Clean, expressive, urgent, all-encompassing. Fourteen lines can open up to fill the available universe.
Richard Powers