Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
No one hates software more than software developers.
Jeff Atwood
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous