Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law
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
When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
Anonymous
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
Steve McConnell
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
I've never written the best code I've ever written.
Anonymous