Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
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
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
Anonymous
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
Anonymous
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis