Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.
Make it correct,
Wes Dyer
make it clear,
make it concise,
make it fast.
In that order.
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering
If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?
Anonymous
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck