Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach
Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.
Alan J. Perlis
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley