Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
"It depends" is the answer to all good software engineering questions, but to be a good software engineer, you should know on what it depends, and why.
Anonymous
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
Alan J. Perlis
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous