Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
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