Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.
Alan J. Perlis
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.
Alan J. Perlis
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous