Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation
The word “experienced” often refers to someone who’s gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
Laurence Gonzales
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
Never trust a programmer in a suit.
Anonymous
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
Anonymous
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis