Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis
A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Anonymous
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.
Larry McVoy
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond