Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
Steve McConnell
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong