Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
Alan J. Perlis
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
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."
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
IBM Manual, 1925
We better hurry up and start coding, there are going to be a lot of bugs to fix.
Anonymous
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous