Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
A programmer started to cuss
Anonymous
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;