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
Make it correct,
Wes Dyer
make it clear,
make it concise,
make it fast.
In that order.
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
The difference between something that can go wrong and something that can’t possibly go wrong is that when something that can’t possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
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