Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
E. W. Dijkstra
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
... what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like "Structured Analysis and Design", "Software Engineering", "Maturity Models", "Management Information Systems", "Integrated Project Support Environments" "Object Orientation" and "Business Process Re-engineering" (the latter three being known as IPSE, OO and BPR, respectively).
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
E.F. Schumacher
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan