Hacker Says

When you want to do something differently from the rest of the world, it's a good idea to look into whether the rest of the world knows something you don't.

Anonymous

Software with no bugs is obsolete.

Anonymous

If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.

Alan J. Perlis

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

Alan J. Perlis

KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid

Anonymous

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Douglas Adams

Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.

Anonymous

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

So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.

Alan J. Perlis

If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.

Anonymous

It’s hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn’t a book on software design.

Bruce Tognazzini