Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.
Alan J. Perlis
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous
In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt.
Blair P. Houghton
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Gordon Bell
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
Agile Manifesto
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
I went to school to learn how to program software applications, which inevitably have bug defects. There was no course at my university on testing, debugging, profiling, or optimization. These things you have to learn on your own, usually in a tight deadline.
Juixe TechKnow
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.
Alan J. Perlis