Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
Good web applications should look like trifle.
Cal Henderson