Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder.
Anonymous