Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
IBM Manual, 1925
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.
Alan J. Perlis
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
Steve McConnell
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous