Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life.
Randal Schwartz
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
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
We better hurry up and start coding, there are going to be a lot of bugs to fix.
Anonymous
Good web applications should look like trifle.
Cal Henderson
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous