Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.
Chris Sacca
A programmer started to cuss
Anonymous
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen