Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
My assertion that we can do better with computer languages is a persistent belief and fond hope, but you'll note I don't actually claim to be either rational or right. Except when it's convenient.
Larry Wall
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
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous