Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
Bill Bryson
Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.
Anonymous
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian Kernighan
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.
Gavin Russell Baker
Some programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' shoulders. Other programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' toes.
Anonymous
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis