Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
People who think, "Oh this is a one-off," need to be offed, or perhaps politely removed from the project.
George Neville-Neil
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach