Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
Anonymous
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to a system.
Fernando J. Corbató
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen