Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.
John Johnson
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis