Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
With regard to adding more programmers to get a project done faster - Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
Fred Brooks
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth