Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
E. W. Dijkstra
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.
Jason Hiner IT Dirty Secrets
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
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
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis
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