Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There is nothing quite so permanent as a quick fix.
Anonymous
Behind Every Successful Coder, there'an even more successful De-Coder to understand that Code.
Anonymous
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
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann