Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to a system.
Fernando J. Corbató