Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
Anonymous
Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development.
Anonymous
Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development.
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
Think of compilation as cooking. Dynamic typing means the steak is juicy and still a little red, like red meat is supposed to be. Static typing means you burnt it to a crisp.
Erik Naggum
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.
Alan J. Perlis
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe