Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
Alan J. Perlis
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
Anonymous
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis