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
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
Anonymous
... what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like "Structured Analysis and Design", "Software Engineering", "Maturity Models", "Management Information Systems", "Integrated Project Support Environments" "Object Orientation" and "Business Process Re-engineering" (the latter three being known as IPSE, OO and BPR, respectively).
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
People who find Wiki-markup too difficult to use and need a WYSIWYG-editor shouldn't be using a Wiki in the first place.
Anonymous
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood