Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization