Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
Education is the process of learning more and more about less and less until one knows everything about nothing and is entitled to call oneself 'Doctor'.
Anonymous
* No technique works if it isn't used. * Ethics change with technology. * "F × S = k" the product of freedom and security is a constant.
Niven's laws
First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.
John Johnson
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous