Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Make it correct,
Wes Dyer
make it clear,
make it concise,
make it fast.
In that order.
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development.
Anonymous
Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development.
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler