Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
* No technique works if it isn't used.
Niven's laws
* Ethics change with technology.
* "F × S = k" the product of freedom and security is a constant.
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen