Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
Anonymous
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
I know it doesn't sound like a big effort, but programmers are really, really lazy, and they like to minimize motion. They'd use feeder tubes if the Health Department would let them.
Steve Yegge
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
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
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison