Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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 programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr