Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
Anonymous
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
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
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
Agile Manifesto
We better hurry up and start coding, there are going to be a lot of bugs to fix.
Anonymous