Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
Behind Every Successful Coder, there'an even more successful De-Coder to understand that Code.
Anonymous
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
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
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers