Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
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
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
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
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis