Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
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
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
Selecting a project due date before the requirements are properly gathered is like selecting which corner you want to paint yourself into, while simultaneously negating the doorway as a viable option.
Chris Ames
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
Rules are for the obedience of the inexperienced and the guidance of the wise.
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
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Anonymous