Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction: One, it's completely impossible. Two, it's possible, but it's not worth doing. Three, I said it was a good idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous