Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
Must be zero, or equal to MAPI_UNICODE. In either case, however, this parameter is ignored.
MSDN
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous