Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority. If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.
Jen, "The IT Crowd"
The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.
Alan J. Perlis
I went to school to learn how to program software applications, which inevitably have bug defects. There was no course at my university on testing, debugging, profiling, or optimization. These things you have to learn on your own, usually in a tight deadline.
Juixe TechKnow
With regard to adding more programmers to get a project done faster - Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
Fred Brooks
Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.
Steve Yegge
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan