Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ has its place in the history of programming languages. Just as Caligula has his place in the history of the Roman Empire.
Robert Firth
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
People who find Wiki-markup too difficult to use and need a WYSIWYG-editor shouldn't be using a Wiki in the first place.
Anonymous
You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.
Jason Hiner IT Dirty Secrets