Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel