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
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
Alan J. Perlis
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous