Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
...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
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
You want a dot operator in PHP?
Matthew Leffler
eval(str_replace('.', '->', $code_with_dot_operator))
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
People who think, "Oh this is a one-off," need to be offed, or perhaps politely removed from the project.
George Neville-Neil
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis