Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.
Alan J. Perlis
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous