Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Alan J. Perlis
Good web applications should look like trifle.
Cal Henderson
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas