Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
Good web applications should look like trifle.
Cal Henderson
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
... what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like "Structured Analysis and Design", "Software Engineering", "Maturity Models", "Management Information Systems", "Integrated Project Support Environments" "Object Orientation" and "Business Process Re-engineering" (the latter three being known as IPSE, OO and BPR, respectively).
Edsger W. Dijkstra
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
Test driven development is like eating watermelon. Slice it up and work in sections at a time; eat all the red until all you have left is green.
Terry L Thompson
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
Behind Every Successful Coder, there'an even more successful De-Coder to understand that Code.
Anonymous