Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
...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
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous