Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
We have the mini and the micro computer. In what semantic niche would the pico computer fall?
Alan J. Perlis
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
Make it correct,
Wes Dyer
make it clear,
make it concise,
make it fast.
In that order.
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold