Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Anonymous
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus