Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
Steve McConnell
Process is no substitute for synaptic activity.
Jeff DeLuca
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
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
Anonymous
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill