Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
Anonymous
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Anonymous
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous