Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
Alan J. Perlis
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP