Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis
A programmer started to cuss
Anonymous
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;
Process is no substitute for synaptic activity.
Jeff DeLuca
Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.
Alan J. Perlis
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks