Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
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
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous
With regard to adding more programmers to get a project done faster - Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
Fred Brooks
The word “experienced” often refers to someone who’s gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
Laurence Gonzales
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer