Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)