Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Debuggers don't remove bugs. They only show them in slow motion.
Anonymous
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
People who think, "Oh this is a one-off," need to be offed, or perhaps politely removed from the project.
George Neville-Neil
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
One who works with their hands is a laborer.
Anonymous
One who works with their hands and their mind is a craftsman.
One who works with their hands, mind and heart is an artist.
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis