Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
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 debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Amateur programmers think there are 1000 bytes in a kilobyte; Real Programmers know there are 1024 meters in a kilometer.
Anonymous
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
IBM Manual, 1925
If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?
Anonymous