Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When a professional race car driver races, his pulse gets lower and he relaxes.
Jun-ichiro Hagino
When I code it is the same thing.
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
Programming is not like being in the CIA; you don't get credit for being sneaky. It's more like advertising; you get lots of credit for making your connections as blatant as possible.
Steve McConnell on coupling from, "Code Complete."
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis