Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
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
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis