Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Alan J. Perlis
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian Kernighan
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
Amateur programmers think there are 1000 bytes in a kilobyte; Real Programmers know there are 1024 meters in a kilometer.
Anonymous