Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous