Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
A computer scientist counts to ten: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ...
Anonymous
Everyone else counts to ten: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's Worth.' This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value.
Niklaus Wirth
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous