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
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.
Alan J. Perlis