Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.
Alan J. Perlis
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
Larry Wall
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous