Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
C++ is more of a rube-goldberg type thing full of high-voltages, large chain-driven gears, sharp edges, exploding widgets, and spots to get your fingers crushed. And because of it's complexity many (if not most) of it's users don't know how it works, and can't tell ahead of time what's going to cause them to loose an arm.
Grant Edwards
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.
Alan J. Perlis