Techie quotes

“The job of an architect is to make everyone in the team expire out of sheer boredom.”
– Ayende Rahien

“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”
– Martin Fowler

“In Lisp, you don’t just write your program down toward the language, you also build the language up toward your program.”
– Paul Graham

“Library design is language design.”
– Bjarne Stroustrup

“The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life.”
– Erik Naggum

“I believe the computer is the most significant tool invented, as it is unique in mechanizing part of the process of learning and understanding, or at least giving us that potential. All other tools have been extensions of muscles and limbs, whereas the computer is an extension of the brain, and it is that which we make of it.”
– Erik Naggum

“The best way to slow down your competitors is to give them your source code.”
– Peter Santangeli