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
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky