Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
One who works with their hands is a laborer.
Anonymous
One who works with their hands and their mind is a craftsman.
One who works with their hands, mind and heart is an artist.
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
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
If you don't think you're doing great things, you're probably right.
Anonymous
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
People who think, "Oh this is a one-off," need to be offed, or perhaps politely removed from the project.
George Neville-Neil
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan J. Perlis
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MSDN
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous