Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.
Alan J. Perlis
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H L Mencken
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Alan J. Perlis
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.
Alan J. Perlis
What happens in the mind of a fine artist is nothing different from that going on in the mind of an expert coder. Both see and thrive in the quintessential nature of patterns.
Lawrence Mucheka
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous