Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
It's interface, not in your face.
Kai Krause
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis
Good programmers invest the effort to learn how to use current practices. Not-so-good programmers just learn the buzzwords, and that’s been a software industry constant for a half century.
Boris Beizer
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous