Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good programmers invest the effort to learn how to use current practices. Not-so-good programmers just learn the buzzwords, and that’s been a software industry constant for a half century.
Boris Beizer
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan J. Perlis
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
C is quirky, flawed and an enormous success.
Dennis Ritchie
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
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous