Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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Anonymous
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
To most Java developers, Ruby/Rails is like a mistress. Ruby/Rails is young, new, and exciting; but eventually we go back to old faithful, dependable, and employable Java with some new tricks and idioms and we are the better programmer for it.
Juixe TechKnow
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare.
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP