Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
We better hurry up and start coding, there are going to be a lot of bugs to fix.
Anonymous
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
Anonymous
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
People who think, "Oh this is a one-off," need to be offed, or perhaps politely removed from the project.
George Neville-Neil
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis