Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Anonymous
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon