Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
Anonymous
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law
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
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
Don't code today what you can't debug tomorrow
Anonymous
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can't always tell the difference.
Jeff Atwood