Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development.
Anonymous
Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development.
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson