Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Good web applications should look like trifle.
Cal Henderson