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
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP
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
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
Blame doesn't fix bugs.
Anonymous
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous