Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
"It depends" is the answer to all good software engineering questions, but to be a good software engineer, you should know on what it depends, and why.
Anonymous
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams