Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
Selecting a project due date before the requirements are properly gathered is like selecting which corner you want to paint yourself into, while simultaneously negating the doorway as a viable option.
Chris Ames
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
Starting a startup is hard, but having a 9 to 5 job is hard too, and in some ways a worse kind of hard.
Paul Graham
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler