Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
Good programmers invest the effort to learn how to use current practices. Not-so-good programmers just learn the buzzwords, and that’s been a software industry constant for a half century.
Boris Beizer
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
Programming is an unnatural act.
Alan J. Perlis
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Mitch Ratcliffe
No one hates software more than software developers.
Jeff Atwood
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill