Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
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
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
Steve McConnell
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz