Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
I know it doesn't sound like a big effort, but programmers are really, really lazy, and they like to minimize motion. They'd use feeder tubes if the Health Department would let them.
Steve Yegge
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie