Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.
Dennie van Tassel
Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder.
Anonymous
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."
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.
Randal Schwartz
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis