Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous
It compiles. Ship it!
Anonymous
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
Process is no substitute for synaptic activity.
Jeff DeLuca
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous