Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
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
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
Development has two outputs... Code & Bugs
Anonymous
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
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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