Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
E. W. Dijkstra
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas