Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it.
John Carmack
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan J. Perlis
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet.
Chris Heilmann
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
[The common definition of estimate is] "An estimate is the most optimistic prediction that has a non-zero probability of coming true" . . . Accepting this definition leads irrevocably toward a method called what's-the-earliest- date-by-which-you-can't-prove-you-won't-be- finished estimating.
Tom DeMarco
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis