Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.
Alan J. Perlis
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis