Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth