Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare.
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.
Anonymous
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
If you don't think you're doing great things, you're probably right.
Anonymous
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous