Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
E.F. Schumacher
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous