Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.
Alan J. Perlis
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.
Gavin Russell Baker
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
Alan J. Perlis
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Gordon Bell
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill