Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.
Alan J. Perlis
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
Anonymous
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Hanlon's Razor
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
Alan J. Perlis