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
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
Anonymous
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus