Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much