Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Anonymous
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development.
Anonymous
Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development.
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
Agile Manifesto
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
Rules are for the obedience of the inexperienced and the guidance of the wise.
Anonymous