Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon