Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch