Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.
Alan J. Perlis
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan J. Perlis
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
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
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law