Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.
Alan J. Perlis
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization