Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
You start writing code, I'll go see what the customer wants
Anonymous
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
A computer scientist counts to ten: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ...
Anonymous
Everyone else counts to ten: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
The difference between something that can go wrong and something that can’t possibly go wrong is that when something that can’t possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Adams
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens