Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Larry Bossidy
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.
Alan J. Perlis
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra