Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
Alan J. Perlis
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
Never trust a programmer in a suit.
Anonymous
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
Make it correct,
Wes Dyer
make it clear,
make it concise,
make it fast.
In that order.
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous