Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
"It depends" is the answer to all good software engineering questions, but to be a good software engineer, you should know on what it depends, and why.
Anonymous
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
Alan J. Perlis
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.
Alan J. Perlis
Development has two outputs... Code & Bugs
Anonymous
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham