Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
Alan J. Perlis
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
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
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
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay