Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
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
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
You start writing code, I'll go see what the customer wants
Anonymous
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
Alan J. Perlis
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne