Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
It’s hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn’t a book on software design.
Bruce Tognazzini
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
Manually managing blocks of memory in C is like juggling bars of soap in a prison shower: It's all fun and games until you forget about one of them.
Anonymous
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory