Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
Anonymous
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
You might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
Programming is difficult. At its core, it is about managing complexity. Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make. Quality is illusive and elusive.
Douglas Crockford
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen