Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)
With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority. If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.
Jen, "The IT Crowd"
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
Steve McConnell
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
Alan J. Perlis
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein