Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare.
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis