Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
E. W. Dijkstra
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law
Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.
Alan J. Perlis
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
Good programmers invest the effort to learn how to use current practices. Not-so-good programmers just learn the buzzwords, and that’s been a software industry constant for a half century.
Boris Beizer