Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
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
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.
Randal Schwartz
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
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.