Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
Java. The elegant simplicity of C++. The blazing speed of Smalltalk.
Anonymous
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
Craig Bruce
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
Alan J. Perlis
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra