Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
A fool with a tool is still a fool.
Anonymous
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
There are 10 types of people. Those who can read ternary, those who can't and those who mistake it for binary.
Anonymous
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis