Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed — it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
Alan J. Perlis
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
If we can't fix it, then it ain't broke.
Jon Bentley
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
It compiles. Ship it!
Anonymous
You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.
Jason Hiner IT Dirty Secrets
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development