Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
Sex is fun, but it probably doesn't solve all your problems.
Larry Wall
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
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
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