Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Code is everything I thought poetry was, back when we were in school. Clean, expressive, urgent, all-encompassing. Fourteen lines can open up to fill the available universe.
Richard Powers
If we can't fix it, then it ain't broke.
Jon Bentley
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt.
Blair P. Houghton
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis