Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
People who find Wiki-markup too difficult to use and need a WYSIWYG-editor shouldn't be using a Wiki in the first place.
Anonymous
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch