Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ is more of a rube-goldberg type thing full of high-voltages, large chain-driven gears, sharp edges, exploding widgets, and spots to get your fingers crushed. And because of it's complexity many (if not most) of it's users don't know how it works, and can't tell ahead of time what's going to cause them to loose an arm.
Grant Edwards
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)