Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
Optimization hinders evolution.
Alan J. Perlis
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
Agile Manifesto
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
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