Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming
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
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous
Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's Worth.' This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value.
Niklaus Wirth