Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
The time machine's software will have a recursive main method.
Anonymous
Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.
Alan J. Perlis