Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous