Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
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
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch