Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
Alan J. Perlis
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.
Larry McVoy
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
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
Sex is fun, but it probably doesn't solve all your problems.
Larry Wall