Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare.
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach