Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt.
Blair P. Houghton
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
Software with no bugs is obsolete.
Anonymous