Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If two people write exactly the same program, each should be put into microcode and then they certainly won't be the same.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
Every dark corner you haven't explored with your flashlight is full of bugs.
Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford