Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.
Charles M Strauss
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.
Dennie van Tassel
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin