Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler