Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
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
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
You start writing code, I'll go see what the customer wants
Anonymous