Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
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
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
I know it doesn't sound like a big effort, but programmers are really, really lazy, and they like to minimize motion. They'd use feeder tubes if the Health Department would let them.
Steve Yegge
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero