Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
Starting a startup is hard, but having a 9 to 5 job is hard too, and in some ways a worse kind of hard.
Paul Graham
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
Debuggers don't remove bugs. They only show them in slow motion.
Anonymous
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous