Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Don't code today what you can't debug tomorrow
Anonymous
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
With regard to adding more programmers to get a project done faster - Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
Fred Brooks
PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.
Jon Ribbens
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
People who find Wiki-markup too difficult to use and need a WYSIWYG-editor shouldn't be using a Wiki in the first place.
Anonymous
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel