Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
Some programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' shoulders. Other programmers try to reach higher by standing on other programmers' toes.
Anonymous
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Hanlon's Razor