Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Alan J. Perlis
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis