Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.
Alan J. Perlis
Good programmers invest the effort to learn how to use current practices. Not-so-good programmers just learn the buzzwords, and that’s been a software industry constant for a half century.
Boris Beizer
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra