Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
Development has two outputs... Code & Bugs
Anonymous
...basically, avoid comments. If your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand.
Rob Pike
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
With regard to adding more programmers to get a project done faster - Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
Fred Brooks
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov