Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas