Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
Good programmers invest the effort to learn how to use current practices. Not-so-good programmers just learn the buzzwords, and that’s been a software industry constant for a half century.
Boris Beizer
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan J. Perlis
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory